Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good member of the Harvard community without discarding one's blackness, Jewishness, Catholicness, femaleness, etc. The role of a given institution--a university, union, corporation--in facilitating this dialectically intricate pluralism does not require, however, total surrender of its native subcultural attributes, its particularistic tendency. It need only forgo the nativist phobia: the fear that pluralism (coexistence of values, forms, styles) necessarily destroys particularism...
...Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party, defined the Franco regime as "a black barbarity." Steen implored his countrymen to forgo their winter vacations at Spam's popular resorts: "After what has happened, those who go to Spain to get a suntan ought to be ashamed of themselves...
...Detroit already has laid off 2,000 of its employees and may have to dismiss hundreds more to erase a $17.6 million deficit. When the city asked 8,000 workers to forgo paid vacations and sick leave as an economy measure, said a shop steward, "We told them to shove...
...twelve. He worked delivering ice in Philly; I worked delivering ice in Newark." The physical similarities are less precise, however, and Steiger requires a two-hour makeup job before stepping in front of the cameras. As for Fields' distinctive voice, Steiger has asked the film crew to forgo their Fields impressions on the set. "It's so catching," he explains. "Everyone thinks they can do it, but it only throws...
...however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that the world is changing in his direction. Says he, with a smile: "You'll be here with me sooner or later...